Rivals who shared the same football stadium

Manchester City and Manchester United- Maine Road

Manchester city and Manchester united are derby rivals in the English premier league. City known as the noisy neighbour played their home games at Maine road until 2003. They allowed Manchester united to play at Maine road charging them 5000 pounds a week and share of their gate receipts. The bombing of Nazi German led to destruction of the theatre of dreams and thus it made Manchester united to shift their games to Maine road. On 17 January 1948 the stadium witnessed its highest attendance of 83,260 and is till the record for league game when Manchester united played against arsenal.

The best attacking trios of this century

Robben, Ribery and Mandzukic (20013):

The Bayern Munich trio were deadly under the manager Jupp Heynckes. It is safe to say that both the wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery were at their peaks and really unstoppable at times. Target man Mario Mandzukic scored 22 goals in that season courtesy some brilliant services provided to him by Robben and Ribery. The trio played a big part in Bayern winning the treble.

Stories behind the origin of the biggest football clubs in Europe

Before 1892, Everton used to play at Anfield for eight consecutive seasons. It was because of some disputes with the owner of the ground John Houlding that Everton decided to relocate to Goodison Park. In the same year, Houlding founded another club to play at Anfield naming it Everton Athletic. But the name got rejected by the FA and it was named as Liverpool. Liverpool have won more European championships than any other English club.